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Charlotte Brontë
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Standard Name: Brontë, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Brontë
Married Name: Mrs Arthur Bell Nicholls
Pseudonym: Currer Bell
Used Form: Charlotte Bronte
CB
's five novels, with their passionate explorations of the dilemmas facing nineteenth-century middle-class English women, have made her perhaps the most loved, imitated, resisted, and hotly debated novelist of the Victorian period.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld
followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR
her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Clara Reeve
endorsed her. She had a huge following... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Brontë
also indulged in assumptions about gender and class in her reading of the critique. She wrote: I read The Quarterly without a pang, except that I thought there were some sentences disgraceful to the... |
| Literary responses | Patricia Beer | Responses to PB
's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn
has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for... |
| Literary responses | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | The young Virginia Stephen
(usually a reviewer hard to please) praised this book warmly: few living novelists are so genuinely gifted as Miss Robins, or can produce work to match hers for strength and sincerity... |
| Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | The anonymous Times Literary Supplement piece was mixed. Though it judged this first book predictable, it did insinuate a comparison to Brontë
's Jane Eyre, and commended the appealingly honest and perceptive treatment of... |
| Literary responses | Emily Spender | The Athenæum reviewer, Almaric Rumsey
, guessed the novelist's gender from the use of the bigamy motif, which he felt to be obviously derivative from more talented novelists (Wilkie Collins
's recently published The... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Charlotte Brontë
wrote to CG
to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life. qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 129 |
| Literary responses | Anne Brontë | On 4 July 1846 two anonymous reviews of Poems by Currer
, Ellis
and Acton Bell
appeared, one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell
in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. A... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | Both Charlotte Brontë
and Charles Dickens
mentioned the appearance of this novel in their letters. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 12 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
called this work simply a little country love story, Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 251 |
| Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | This novel was reviewed for the Athenæum by Horace St John
, who placed FAKunmistakeably in the school of Currer Bell
, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1550 (1857): 881 |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | The book was initially well-received. A reviewer for the mostly female-oriented Peterson's Magazine, for instance, declared that [o]n some of the deepest problems that agitate humanity [RHD
] has evidently thought much and... |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | H. F. Chorley
, the Athenæum reviewer, lauded it as an excellent story for young people, sound in morals and pleasant in incident,—with only one passing apparition of the Deus ex machina to disturb our... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer
(who was probably introduced to EG
by William
and Mary Howitt
) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may... |
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